Anambra State
16 Nov
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has delivered relief materials approved by the Federal Government to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) affected by flooding in Anambra State. The relief items delivered included bags of rice, garri, cartons of vegetable oil, seasoning cubes, tomato paste, mats, clothing for men, women, and children, toilet soap, detergents, and…
1 Nov
A year has passed since 27-year-old Onyekachi Ugiri from Anambra State was tragically killed during a protest against the attempted impeachment of Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
24 Oct
The Anambra State Police Command has announced the commencement of an investigation into several videos and voice notes circulating on social media containing threats of violence in the state. The command’s spokesperson, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement released in Awka on Thursday. Ikenga said the police are not taking the clips lightly…
22 Oct
The Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam, has faulted families and the Nibo community for rushing to bury victims of the Sunday massacre without police clearance.
21 Oct
It was a black Sunday in Nibo, Awka South Local Government Area (LGA), Anambra State, as no fewer than eight lives were lost when a group of suspected armed cultists engaged each other in a supremacy gun battle. Another clash between rival cult groups reportedly claimed three other lives in Nodu Village of Okpuno community,…
19 Oct
Yet again, the insecurity in Anambra State claimed three precious lives last week. The deceased who were members of the crew of Supersport were killed when their vehicle ran into an ambush by gunmen at Iseke, a border town of Ihiala Local Council of Anambra State
17 Oct
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Saturday, November 8, 2025, for the off-cycle governorship election in Anambra State. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this on Thursday at an extraordinary emergency meeting with the leadership of political parties in Abuja. Yakubu said the decision was in line with Section 28(1) of the Electoral…
17 Oct
The yearly Ofala festival sponsored by leading telecommunications firm, Globacom, begins in Onitsha, Anambra State, tomorrow at the Ime Obi, the palace of Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe, the kingdom’s traditional ruler.
8 Oct
Police operatives in Anambra State have successfully thwarted a kidnapping attempt on a foreign national by members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
6 Oct
Immediate past Managing Director and Chief Executive of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Chief George Moghalu, at the weekend confirmed his intention to run for the governorship seat of Anambra State next year. He also vowed to do just a single term of four years, adding that he would seek to do so with…
4 Oct
The agrarian revolution is a vision encrypted in the policy trust of the Government of Anambra state, and is unveiled to recapture the idyllic past in order to fight global economic downturn that has created hunger in Nigeria.
29 Sep
It was a bag of mixed feelings virtually all over Anambra State Saturday afternoon as the much-expected council elections got underway. The election was to elect chairmen and councillors into the 21 local governments and 326 wards in the state. While members of the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) described the election as commendable,…
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Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, has expressed hearty felicitations to Chief Emeka Anyaoku for the attainment of a new age of 92 years. Anyaoku, a distinguished African diplomat, elder statesman, and foremost Anambra State personage, was a Commonwealth Secretary-General. He clocked 92 years today, 18 January, 2025. In his congratulatory message, Soludo said that Anyaoku's…
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